hellyescharlesedwards: Yet more great reviews for The King’s Speech: Mail On Sunday: Compared with Colin Firth’s version, Charles Edwards’s Bertie has added bark and bite. More importantly, the increased self-awareness and intelligence Edwards gives his character makes better sense of the view of Bertie’s Aussie speech therapist, Lionel Logue (Jonathan Hyde) that he will ‘make a bloody good King’. Verdict: 4 stars ThisIsBath: It’s a powerful plot with great technical devices on stage to keep the action going at a good pace. Quite literally in some cases with characters walking fast over moving bits of stage. But the core of the play is the relationship between Logue and the new king, brilliantly played by Charles Edwards, as they explore new ways to help Bertie deliver key speeches that will be carried around the world by radio. The Observer: Charles Edwards could not be bettered as George VI; he is withheld, restrained, so that each of his difficulties seems reluctantly shared with the audience. At times his stammer is no more than a pulse beating in his cheek; at others, you see the tension in his clenched fists and fixed eyes. Sometimes the attempt to burst through the blockage runs like a shudder down the length of his body and his feet beat against the ground.  Gazette: The pressure was certainly on for Charles Edwards, who takes the title role as King George VI in David Seidler’s stage version of The King’s Speech. Although not unaccustomed to accolades having himself been nominated for the Evening Standard 2011 best actor award, Edwards faced an almost impossible challenge taking on a role which so recently had won Colin Firth undisputed worldwide acclaim. … But it was not impossible as Edwards took to the regal role admirably, showing all the same traits Firth did in the 2010 film … Edwards, for me, however, proved more endearing to the audience and more at ease with unorthodox Aussie speech therapist Lionel Logue (Jonathan Hyde).

hellyescharlesedwards:

Yet more great reviews for The King’s Speech:

Mail On Sunday:

Compared with Colin Firth’s version, Charles Edwards’s Bertie has added bark and bite. More importantly, the increased self-awareness and intelligence Edwards gives his character makes better sense of the view of Bertie’s Aussie speech therapist, Lionel Logue (Jonathan Hyde) that he will ‘make a bloody good King’.

Verdict: 4 stars

ThisIsBath:

It’s a powerful plot with great technical devices on stage to keep the action going at a good pace. Quite literally in some cases with characters walking fast over moving bits of stage. But the core of the play is the relationship between Logue and the new king, brilliantly played by Charles Edwards, as they explore new ways to help Bertie deliver key speeches that will be carried around the world by radio.

The Observer:

Charles Edwards could not be bettered as George VI; he is withheld, restrained, so that each of his difficulties seems reluctantly shared with the audience. At times his stammer is no more than a pulse beating in his cheek; at others, you see the tension in his clenched fists and fixed eyes. Sometimes the attempt to burst through the blockage runs like a shudder down the length of his body and his feet beat against the ground. 

Gazette:

The pressure was certainly on for Charles Edwards, who takes the title role as King George VI in David Seidler’s stage version of The King’s Speech. Although not unaccustomed to accolades having himself been nominated for the Evening Standard 2011 best actor award, Edwards faced an almost impossible challenge taking on a role which so recently had won Colin Firth undisputed worldwide acclaim. … But it was not impossible as Edwards took to the regal role admirably, showing all the same traits Firth did in the 2010 film … Edwards, for me, however, proved more endearing to the audience and more at ease with unorthodox Aussie speech therapist Lionel Logue (Jonathan Hyde).